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Booktitle: Proceedings of the Spring Conference on Computer Graphics 2017

Date (from): 15. May 2017

Date (to): 17. May 2017

Location: Mikulov, Czech Republic

Pages (from): 27

Pages (to): 36

Keywords: animated transitions, storytelling, molecular visualization

Abstract

In molecular biology, illustrative animations are used to convey complex biological phenomena to broad audiences. However, such animations have to be manually authored in 3D modeling software, a time consuming task that has to be repeated from scratch for every new data set, and requires a high level of expertise in illustration, animation, and biology. We therefore propose metamorphers: a set of operations for deﬁning animation states as well as the transitions to them in the form of re-usable story telling templates. The re-usability is two-fold. Firstly, due to their modular nature, metamorphers can be re-used in different combinations to create a wide range of animations. Secondly, due to their abstract nature, metamorphers can be re-used to re-create an intended animation for a wide range of compatible data sets. Metamorphers thereby mask the low level complexity of explicit animation speciﬁcations by exploiting the inherent properties of the molecular data, such as the position, size, and hierarchy level of a semantic data subset.

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@inproceedings{sorger_2017_metamorphers,
title = "Metamorphers: Storytelling Templates For Illustrative
Animated Transitions in Molecular Visualization",
author = "Johannes Sorger and Peter Mindek and Peter Rautek and
Meister Eduard Gr\"{o}ller and Graham Johnson and Ivan Viola",
year = "2017",
abstract = "In molecular biology, illustrative animations are used to
convey complex biological phenomena to broad audiences.
However, such animations have to be manually authored in 3D
modeling software, a time consuming task that has to be
repeated from scratch for every new data set, and requires a
high level of expertise in illustration, animation, and
biology. We therefore propose metamorphers: a set of
operations for deﬁning animation states as well as the
transitions to them in the form of re-usable story telling
templates. The re-usability is two-fold. Firstly, due to
their modular nature, metamorphers can be re-used in
different combinations to create a wide range of animations.
Secondly, due to their abstract nature, metamorphers can be
re-used to re-create an intended animation for a wide range
of compatible data sets. Metamorphers thereby mask the low
level complexity of explicit animation speciﬁcations by
exploiting the inherent properties of the molecular data,
such as the position, size, and hierarchy level of a
semantic data subset.",
month = may,
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Spring Conference on Computer Graphics
2017",
location = "Mikulov, Czech Republic",
pages = "27--36",
keywords = "animated transitions, storytelling, molecular visualization",
URL = "https://www.cg.tuwien.ac.at/research/publications/2017/sorger_2017_metamorphers/",
}